Diapers are an expensive necessity that can have a deep impact on a family’s budget. Families with young children or seniors often find themselves making difficult choices, particularly during a time of rising inflation.
When determining how best to help someone in need, the best approach is to simply ask them.
That philosophy has helped Jessamine Stone go from a dissatisfied food pantry client to a very satisfied coordinator of the same pantry, with a happy client group to match.
When you walk into any large space at Williams Toyota in Elmira, it is hard to miss what Vice President Dalton Williams calls “the guiding light we revisit daily.” It’s a poster-sized list of what Dalton refers to as the Playbook — a set of rules the company, as well...
Catherine Rogers has a mission. And it’s one that the Food Bank of the Southern Tier Community Advocate Training program is helping her achieve. Catherine, who lives in Smithboro, was part of the charter group of trainees back in 2016 when the program was called the...
Every car that approaches the pick-up line at the Mobile Food Pantry in Watkins Glen gets the same warm greeting – a wave, a smile, and a thank you. The greeter is Watkins Glen Community Center site coordinator Beverly Mello. And that greeting fits Bev to a T. From...
When you walk into B.C. Cate Elementary School, it is immediately apparent how loved and valued the Kids’ Farmers Market is in this community. “In the winter, we set up the tables with produce in here,” Principal James Nolan explains. “And in the springtime, we do it...
For Nordia Hoff, nourishment starts, but does not end, with sharing food. As the pantry coordinator at the Friendship SDA Church in Elmira, Nordia goes above and beyond to meet her community’s physical and emotional needs. The pantry started during the pandemic to...
In our 40th year of service, my team and I have been reflecting on what our mission of building and sustaining hunger-free communities truly means. Over the decades, our collective understanding of the problem of food insecurity, and how to best solve it, has evolved....
By Anne Lee For generations, my husband’s family ran a dairy farm in Broome County. But a few years ago, we just couldn’t make ends meet with that anymore. When the dairy prices were very low and had been for a while, we had to choose between paying bills or having...
As the pandemic laid bare the deep-rooted economic suffering in our region, the team at AIM Independent Living Center in Corning partnered with the Food Bank to launch their Community Nutrition Program. Led by Nick Moffe, Director of Peer Support Services, and Andy...